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  2. Galeria Muy - Wikipedia

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    [2] are among the top representatives of the indigenous people's contemporary art movement in Mexico. This cultural center is co-directed by anthropologist John Burstein [3] and artist and promoter Martha Alejandra López, a Zoque from Rayón Chiapas. The MUY has maintained an average of 4 exhibits a year every year since its opening in 2014.

  3. Lacandon people - Wikipedia

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    Unlike other indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica, though, they were not strongly affected by outside forces until the 19th century. While other Indians were living under the control of the Spanish, the Lacandon lived independently deep in the tropical forest. Their independence allowed them to manage their contact with the outside world in a ...

  4. Chiapanec people - Wikipedia

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    The Chiapanec, also known as Chiapas or Soctones, were an indigenous people who occupied a part of the central region of the present-day state of Chiapas, Mexico.Not much is known about their origin, but it is often speculated that they may have migrated from Central America northwards, due to their close linguistic relationship with the Mangues. [1]

  5. Chiapas - Wikipedia

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    When the Spanish arrived in the 16th century, they found the indigenous peoples divided into Mayan and non-Mayan, with the latter dominated by the Zoques and Chiapanecas. [15] The first contact between Spaniards and the people of Chiapas came in 1522, when Hernán Cortés sent tax collectors to the area after Aztec Empire was subdued. The first ...

  6. Indigenous peoples of Mexico - Wikipedia

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    According to the CDI, the states with the greatest percentage of indigenous population are: [84] Yucatán, with 65.40%, Quintana Roo with 44.44% and Campeche with 44.54% of the population being indigenous, most of them Maya; Oaxaca with 65.73% of the population, the most numerous groups being the Mixtec and Zapotec peoples; Chiapas has 36.15% ...

  7. Tzeltal people - Wikipedia

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    The Tzeltal are a Maya people of Mexico, who chiefly reside in the highlands of Chiapas.The Tzeltal language belongs to the Tzeltalan subgroup of Maya languages.Most Tzeltals live in communities in about twenty municipalities, under a Mexican system called “usos y costumbres” which seeks to respect traditional indigenous authority and politics.

  8. Chʼol people - Wikipedia

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    The Chʼol are an Indigenous people of Mexico, mainly in the northern Chiapas highlands in the state of Chiapas. As one of the Maya peoples, their indigenous language is from the Mayan language family, known also as Chʼol. According to the 2000 Census, there were 140,806 speakers of Chʼol in Chiapas, including 40,000 who were monolingual.

  9. Tzotzil - Wikipedia

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    The Tzotzil are an Indigenous Maya people of the central highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. [2] As of 2000, they numbered about 298,000. The municipalities with the largest Tzotzil population are Chamula (48,500), San Cristóbal de las Casas (30,700), and Zinacantán (24,300), in the Mexican state of Chiapas.